Chapter 25: Change the Unchangeable? I Think Not!

Hey Everyone;

I was planning on blogging at sometime today and to be honest I was going to do it around 3. I never had anything overly exciting to blog about except the fact I’m sick and stayed home from school today. I was sitting in the rocking chair at the end on the hallway and dad was out in the living room watching the news. I was focused in on the talking that was going on and tried to make the voices with pictures of people in my head (yeah I know… I was bored okay –lol). Anyways, what really caught my attention was the story of an Afghan aid worker. I really shut everything else out and listened really hard to this, cause I knew it was good to blog on. Anyways I’ll tell you briefly what the news report was about.
Like I already said, it was about an Afghan aid worker that was based in Afghanistan (go figure- lol) Anyways, the story goes on to tell that he was of the Muslim faith but recently he converted to the Christianity faith. He publicly announced his newfound faith and announced that he believes that Jesus is the only way to eternal salvation and that he believed in the Holy Spirit and other Christianity beliefs.
Due to the Afghan law, people who reject their religious (Muslim) belief for a new found faith must pay the penalty of death. (Harsh eh?) His family turned him into their government who convicted him of the crime and sentenced him to death.
Now the United States government is pleading with Afghanistan government to release this man and let their people take upon whatever religious belief they choose, suppose it is to be Muslim, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.
I found this story quite interesting, mostly do to the fact that now that I look at the war in Afghanistan and even the war in Iraq – which might I add I was in total favor for – being pointless. They went into the lands of Afghanistan to bring freedom to its people and now, after it seemed “good” at lease for a while it fell apart. I mean, if countries went into Afghanistan and fought until they created a somewhat stable government, etc. and to have it all backfire by the “newly” elected government sentence one of its residents to death because of a conversion – well that only makes the war one thing –pointless! As much as I hate to say it, it has to be true. I guess like the saying I have heard so many times before goes “you can’t bring freedom to a place that doesn’t want it”.
I’m not looking at only the Afghan war but the war in Iraq. Will the same thing take place? Will the United States be turned into a mockery? Thinking so boldly that they could bring a change to the unchangeable? After this story – I now think YES, Yes they will!
As you can clearly see by this story that what they done, the freedom they fought for, was no more meaningful to the people of Afghanistan then the next thing that someone tried to do for them.
I personally should have known better as well, not only the US. It is biblical prophecy that there shall not be peace in the Middle East.
I have done a small amount of research on this topic (peace in the Middle East) and this is what I came up with, so bare with me:

Mark 13: 6-8
     Jesus tells us to not be afraid of war and rumors of war because these things must happen, but the end is still to come. If Jesus tells us not to be afraid because these things MUST happen, (not maybe, MUST) then He must have known there would be no peace. The verse says, “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom” – that sounds handy well right for the Middle East don’t you think?

You know, its kind of hard to study this topic and write about it seconds later. I think I might just break this into a couple different posts, anyone else think it would be a good idea? I do. Even if you don’t, I am now. Ha!

Well, I hope and pray that I would get a good topic on the go here. Hopefully I myself will learn greatly from this and even better if you would learn something as well. I’m going to look forward in hearing some feedback on this. (Even if it’s only from Rudy, Charlotte and Rob) ha! Anyways, I’m going to take off now –

Peace
Prayers
~Josh